Description
Clermont-Ferrand is the eighth of 13 chapters published in serial form is a Théâtre-pièce in four mouvements:— Prelude in V Actes, Entr'acte in III Actes, Escapade in III Actes, and Intermède in II Actes.

Summary
It is a Conte de fée—a Tale of Zoë on a promenade of the High Road to the North and all of the persons she meets during her travels who address the philosophy, theories and mores of Reality, Humanity, Religion, Mythology, Myth, and Fey in the state of Existence with the beginning of the Second Great War of Indignities lurking.

Excerpt
Confluence: France, 1913 — Plots made forfeit; intrigues abated; guests from Orbis infernum and Orbis terrae congress in introductions, confidences, spirited colloquies and ebullient exultant games of Chance; and, the Grand Mortality caused by baleful withering once believed by les Citoyens immortels as but a conte d’horreur is divulged to be.